Tarun Vijay

Tarun Vijay
MP of Rajya Sabha for Uttarakhand
In office July 2010 – July 2016
Succeeded by	Pradeep Tamta
Constituency	Uttarakhand
Personal details
Born	1961 (age 55–56)
Occupation	Journalism, author, social worker, Politician

Tarun Vijay (born in 1961) is an Indian author, social worker and journalist. He was the editor of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) weekly in Hindi, Panchajanya, from 1986 to February 2008. He also writes for the Daily Pioneer. He is currently working as the director of the Dr. Syamaprasad Mookerjee Research Foundation (DSMRF).

He was also elected member of Rajya Sabha till his Term ended in July 2016, of the upper house of Indian Parliament "RajyaSabha" and president of Parliamentary Group on India China Friendship. He is also member of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence Ministry and Parliamentary Consultative Committee on External Affairs. He is also a member of Board of Governors, Parliamentary Network on World Bank and IMF.

Tarun Vijay joined Panchajanya in 1986 as executive editor, after a decade of freelance journalism and work among the tribal people in Dadra and Nagar Haveli as a pracharak of Bharatiya Vanavasi Kalyan Ashram. This last-mentioned sojourn, in fact, had attracted him to the attention of noted film-makers Basu Bhattacharya and William Greaves, who featured him in a documentary.

Vijay was appointed director of the BJP's newly created think-tank the Dr Shyama Prasad Mookerjee Research foundation. In 1995, the Audit Bureau of Circulation credited the magazine with a circulation of 85,000, a figure which Vijay claims has crossed the 1 lakh mark today.

Vijay joined Panchjanya in 1979. He has been Chief Editor for 20 years. The first editor of the 60-year-old Panchjanya was former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

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